Mosh will make way for Nokia’s new content storefront, Ovi, which is on track to launch in May. Ovi is widely seen to be Nokia’s attempt at rivalling Apple’s App Store, offering both free and paid-for content.{ad}

Mosh allowed users to upload content and share it with others. Users were soon using the service to share pirated music and games as well as adult pictures and videos. This caused much consternation from music labels, application developers, and other content publishers.

Nokia will use their Developer Summit in Monaco next month to announce more details of their Ovi store, including pricing strategy. Offering a 70% revenue share to publishers, Ovi follows the App Store model closely. Content publishers must register to publish to Ovi and Nokia will doubtless police their new store very carefully for copyrighted material to avoid the problems it encountered with Mosh.